The Mending

The Mending

This is a story of a sorcerer,a saint, and a city. All three have had curses broken and their hearts mended.

Augustus packed up his notes and journals on the hole in magic and everything he learned and sent them off to the Merlinus Academy of Sorcerers.

There was talk of them giving him a lifetime achievement award and offering him a position at the Academy, but he refused both. He felt like his life was his own for the first time, and he wasn’t about to give it away to academia.

Mara’s store never did reappear again, and neither did her saintly powers. The tea that she made was only magical of the regular kind, and after she met new people, they always remembered her. Her silver hair that had been gifted by the lightning at her birth never did change back.

Mara didn’t miss any of it. She woke up next to a man that loved her and she could still feel and touch the wild magic around her. If someone slipped a note into the Judge’s mailbox, asking for help, she always made sure it got answered.

Despite Melbourne’s magic healing, it never did play by any normal rules again. Fallen angels, wish leaves, sin eaters, and faerie knights can still be found if one is in the right place and is watching at the right time.

Like all magic, if you keep your eyes open and search for it, it will always find you, and you will never be the same again.